The Best No.1 Draft Pick In Every Team's History

As the June 10-11 MLB Draft approaches, it's a great time to look back at the best first-round selections in each club's history. With the help of each of the 30 MLB.com beat writers, here's a look at a list that includes All-Stars, MVP Award winners, Cy Young Award winners and Hall of Famers who began their professional journey when they heard their name called in the first round of the MLB Draft.

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Jack Flaherty Vs. Walker Buehler Could Define The 2020's

Sandy Koufax vs. Bob Gibson. Tom Seaver vs. Steve Carlton. Roger Clemens vs. Pedro Martinez. Stretching all the way back to the turn of the 20th century, when Christy Mathewson squared off against Mordecai “Three-Finger” Brown, few things in baseball are as exciting as a duel between two premier aces.

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Cardinals' Top Five Center Fielders

Here is Anne Rogers’ ranking of the Top 5 center fielders in Cardinals history. Next week: Right fielders.

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2020 Hall Of Fame Induction Postponed To July 2021

Derek Jeter was among the tens of thousands hanging on Mariano Rivera’s words as the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum’s first unanimous inductee appeared in Cooperstown, N.Y., last July, and as the longtime Yankees teammates shared that moment in the sun, there was every reason to believe that a similar speech would be heard this summer.
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Add the National Baseball Hall of Fame’s induction to the coronavirus pandemic’s cancellations.
Cardinal Beat

Former Cardinals star Ted Simmons had waited more a quarter century, since his name first surfaced on a Hall of Fame ballot, to enter the National Baseball Hall of Museum as an inductee. He is in. Make no mistake about that. He just hasn’t been inducted.
Post-Dispatch

Relive Cardinals' 2004 NLCS Clincher Today At 6PM CT

The game that delivered the Cardinals’ first pennant in 17 years can be watched Sunday as part of MLB’s push to stream classic games on its various platforms during baseball’s shutdown.

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Who Was Each Club's Best Player Of The 1990's?

We just finished up a decade, and we wrote many, many stories commemorating the end of that decade, including an All-Decade Team. But now that we all have some more time on our hands, baseball-wise, it might be time for some other decade-looks-back.

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Cardinals' Top Five Third Basemen

No one loves a good debate quite like baseball fans, and with that in mind, we asked each of our beat reporters to rank the top five players by position in the history of their franchise, based on their career while playing for that club. These rankings are for fun and debate purposes only … if you don’t agree with the order, participate in the Twitter poll to vote for your favorite at this position.

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Cardinals Capsules, Vol.5: "We Are Going To Game Seven!" Jim Edmonds Walks Off Game Six Of The 2004 NLCS

Welcome back to Cards Capsules, the series in which we take a look back at memorable Cardinals games from the last 20 years in St. Louis baseball history. Without any baseball to watch in the present due to the spread of coronavirus, what better way to fill the time, eh?

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Jack Flaherty Drafts His All-Time Best Rotation In MLB History On KMOX

St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher Jack Flaherty has all been all over social media since the MLB season was postponed with some incredible lists. Sports, pop culture, food, ect... if there's a list being made of something, Flaherty has been asked and likely answered it (just go check out his Twitter for more).

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Capping Career With Cardinals, Larry Walker A Hall Of Famer

Two former Cardinals players will be enshrined in Cooperstown, N.Y., this summer.
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The St. Louis Cardinals congratulate former Redbirds outfielder Larry Walker who earned selection today to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Walker joined Derek Jeter among the players who received the necessary 75 percent of all ballots cast by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America (BBWAA).
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A legend famous for how high he jumped at his position and an all-around great who had to fight the perception altitude was the reason for his aptitude will join Ted Simmons in Cooperstown, N.Y., as part of the National Baseball Hall of Fame's class of 2020.
Birdland

The timeframe Larry Walker had been told to be ready Tuesday for a phone call that would change his life had “come and gone,” he said, and he was to about walk back inside his house, believing he was out of the running for baseball’s Hall of Fame.
Post-Dispatch

Who'll Get The Call? 2020 Hall Of Fame Tracking, Explained

This year's Hall of Fame results are less than a week away. The Cooperstown Class of 2020 will be finalized next Tuesday, Jan. 21, with coverage beginning at 3 p.m. ET on MLB Network and the announcement airing in the 6 p.m. hour.

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Curt Flood Set Off The Free Agent Revolution 50 Years Ago

Curt Flood set off the free-agent revolution 50 years ago Tuesday with a 128-word letter to baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, two paragraphs that pretty much ended the career of a World Series champion regarded as among the sport's stars but united a union behind his cause.

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Why Ted Simmons Should Finally Get The Call To Cooperstown

In a few weeks, baseball can right a wrong that's been an injustice going on 25 years now. A National Baseball Hall of Fame-appointed electorate will have yet another chance to enshrine former Cardinal Ted Simmons in Cooperstown.

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Scott Rolen Leads Cardinals Hall Of Fame Hopefuls

Scott Rolen headlines a group of players on the 2020 Baseball Hall of Fame ballot with ties to St. Louis.

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Adam Wainwright Adds To His Postseason Legend

In a postseason already filled with great pitching performances, Adam Wainwright’s gem on Sunday afternoon was likely one of the most unexpected. He held the Braves scoreless over seven and two-thirds innings, allowing just six baserunners while striking out eight. If Carlos Martínez had been able to hold onto the slim margin he was handed in the ninth, the headline would have certainly featured the 38-year-old’s gutsy outing. But this latest start was just one more milestone in a career filled with postseason heroics.

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Gerrit Cole Breaks Astros' Strikeout Record, Ties An MLB Mark

Forty years ago, J.R. Richard was one of the most dominating pitchers in baseball, striking out batters at a rate that few have before or since. He fanned an Astros-record 313 in 1979 -- his final full season in the big leagues -- and finished third in National League Cy Young Award voting.

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How Steve Carlton Got Strikeout Record For Cardinals

On a night when Steve Carlton pitched great, he wasn’t good enough to win.

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How Jack Flaherty Became A Star & Nearly Single-Handedly Fueled The Cardinals' Playoff Run

Among the 10 teams currently in playoff position, the Cardinals have had the fewest star-level seasons. Literally so, using 2019 All-Star selections as the heuristic; shortstop Paul DeJong was St. Louis’s lone representative at July’s exhibition.

The Ringer

Chris Sale Joins Elite Group With Another 200-K Season

Chris Sale joined a list of baseball’s elite on Thursday.

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Chris Carpenter Returns To Cooperstown To Honor Roy Halladay, 'Amazing Competitor'; Ryan Helsley Promoted, Bullpen Fortified; Extra Bases

At some point early Sunday morning, former Cardinals ace Chris Carpenter plans to leave his New England home and drive several hours, alone, to visit Cooperstown, N.Y., for the first time in more than two decades. When last he was there, on July 27, 1998, his Blue Jays played in the Hall of Fame Game, and for the event Toronto promoted a young, rising-prospect righthander who would become one of Carpenter’s dearest friends.

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